The film won Best Comedy Film at the British Comedy Awards. She can -- at least for a while, it seems -- in Notting Hill. The final cut was 3. Notting Hill reunites Hugh Grant with producer Duncan Kenworthy and screenwriter Richard Curtis, who previously worked together on the international hit Four Weddings And A Funeral. In reality, Freely taught at Bo? She also apologizes for the previous incident, telling Will her boyfriend simply showed up out of the blue and the relationship had broken down long before then. They take turns supporting his decision to end the relationship by halfheartedly pointing out Anna's flaws. Anna sees a print of the painting in William's home and later gives him what is presumably the original.
None of those childish kebab stories. Will offers his house nearby for Anna to change. One day, William is minding the store when in strolls Anna Scott Julia Roberts , a lovely and well-known actress from the United States who is in London working on a film. Through a health and safety act, the production received permission to film and constructed the scene in 24 hours. Will reiterates Anna's last comment and realizes his mistake. He visits her location shoot, where Anna sees him and invites him past security.
Once she calms down, they spend some time on the rooftop patio rehearsing lines from Anna's next film. The soundtrack album was released by Island Records. Anna is apologetic and embarrassed, while a stunned Will leaves. Eventually Anna Scott settles down to find she has fallen for William. That night, Anna goes to him and they have sex. Would you like my phone number? Honey immediately recognizes Anna and declares them best friends instantly. The following evening they go to a restaurant, where Will overhears a group of patrons making crude remarks about Anna and attempts to defend her, before Anna steps in herself and humiliates them.
The orange juice flinging gentleman is William Thacker. Will is exhilarated, before remembering that he is expected at his sister Honey's birthday party; Anna surprises him by offering to be his date. If I'm wrong about the whole book-down-the-trousers scenario, I really apologize. They pile into Max's car and race across London to Anna's hotel, where they find that she has checked out and is holding a press conference at the Savoy Hotel. It was the sixteenth highest-grossing film of 1999, and as of February 2014 is the 215th highest-grossing film of all time. Sparks of romance fly, but the road to love is hampered by William's git of a roommate, and Anna's stressful lifestyle. The next day, Anna comes to the bookshop with a present.
Actually-- it's a sort of masterpiece really. She and Will share a private moment in a garden square as they walk back from the birthday party. When Anna has to stop back to pick up a bag she left at William's house, they kiss -- just in time for Spike to show up. Before leaving, she impulsively kisses him and then asks him not to mention what just occurred. Her American movie star boyfriend who was never mentioned until now appears and starts to bark orders at him, as well as make unflattering comments about Anna's weight. In 1999, it became the then highest grossing British film.
They were concerned that if our fake was too good, it might float around the market and create problems. In the very last scene of the movie, Will is shown reading the book Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières. William Thacker played by Hugh Grant is a bookseller at a shop in the Notting Hill district in West London, who shares a house with an eccentric Welsh friend, Spike Rhys Ifans. That way we would have more control, because we were worried about having Roberts and Grant on public streets where we could get thousands of onlookers. Would you be able to believe it? And I'll throw in one of these for free. They were the jigsaw that had to be put together all in one go, and I think we've got a very good variety of people who can realistically still live in the same world.
At the house of Will's friends Max and Bella, Anna fits in perfectly as they all share stories. The romance is on again off again and William's heart is easily cast aside. When she unexpectedly pops into his bookstore, he has to impress her while trying to get a stolen book out of a shoplifter's trousers! This left the producers to film in a heavily populated area. Since he lives nearby, William politely offers to let her stop by his house to clean up; since William seems harmless enough, Anna agrees. The next morning, the press inadvertently tipped off by Spike besiege Will's house and get pictures of both him and Anna half-dressed. The Travel Book Store is located at 142 Portobello Road.
Desson Howe of The Washington Post gave the film a very positive review, particularly praising Rhys Ifans' performance as Spike. Anna moves in a fast paced lifestyle that is suddenly halted by an orange juice. But when he arrives, she tells him he must leave immediately. One of the final scenes takes place at a film premiere, which presented difficulties. It opened the same weekend as Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, which didn't affect its Box Office as Notting Hill opened at Number 2. Interior scenes were the last to be filmed, at Shepperton Studios. Anna periodically visits the area for press releases and movie deals.